The Thing Workshop Notes By Bill Abbott

​The document provides instructions for performing a magic routine using a cloth and gimmick to make a ball appear, levitate, vanish, and reappear. It details the techniques used at each stage, including sizing the gimmick ring, draping the cloth, making the ball appear and levitate, performing a peek, making the ball vanish, making it reappear, allowing it to fly away, pushing it into the box, and ending the routine by removing the gimmick and closing the box. Common mistakes are identified for each technique. The goal is to sell the illusion through imagination and subtle, synchronized movements that maintain the illusion of a floating ball.